Hi, Everyone... Here's an interesting excerpt about the Town of Queensbury in Warren County. Enjoy... Susan, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Source: *History & Biography of Washington County and the Town of Queensbury, NY*, arranged & edited by the Gresham Publishing Co., Richmond, IN, 1894. "The town of Queensbury, patented May 29, 1762, to Daniel PRINDLE and twenty-two others, originally comprised in addition to its present territory the towns of Bolton, Caldwell, Chester, Hague, Johnsonburg, Luzerne and Thurman. It was one of the original townships erected March 7, 1788. The northern and eastern parts of the town are hilly, while the western part is a sandy plain extending to the foot of the Palmerton mountains. The town occupies a plateau on the great watershed between the Hudson and the Saint Lawrence rivers, while its drainage in the northern and central parts is through Half-way brook into the waters of Lake Champlain, but the Harrissena part is to Lake George, and the remainder is to the Hudson river. The more important of the creeks, brooks and runs of the town are: Reed's Meadow creek; Cold brook, noted for a terrible massacre during the French and Indian war; Meadow run, sometimes called Four Mile run; Rock brook, on which stood Fort William; Butler brook; Roaring brook; and the celebrated Half-way brook on the old military road from Fort Edward to the head of Lake George. On Half-way brook was laid out in 1762 the site of a town village that never got beyond the paper state of its existence. The principal places in the town beside Glens Falls are: Oneida, where Joshua CHASE erected the first house about 1793; Goodspeedville, founded in 1845 by Stephen GOODSPEED; and the Harrissena, Sandford Ridge and Brown settlements, so thickly dotted with dwellings, churches and school houses as almost to be counted as hamlets." SL Willig valcour@earthlink.net List Admin. for VTADDISO, NHSULLIV, IRL-Palatine, Empey-l, Garfield-l